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New Trading Systems and Methods + Website, Fifth Edition provides traders, money managers, and trading systems develoepers with a complete understanding of the tools and techniques needed to develop or choose a trading program for their needs. It begins with a discussion of basic mathematical and statistical concepts including how much data to use, how to create an index, probabilities, and other tools necessary to an understanding of trading systems and methods. Key technical analysis topics and indicators are then covered including indentifying trends and momentum. The analytical framework for comparing patterns to other systematic methods and techniques is presented. Examples are provided for stocks, including ETFs and futures. This new edition offers expanded coverage of arbitrage and high frequency trading, along with even more sophisticated risk management models. New Trading Systems and Methods, Fifth Edition thoroughly updates this much in demand reference - adding more systems, more methods, and an extensive array of risk analysis techniques necessary to survive and thrive in post-crisis markets.

Perry J. Kaufman has over thirty years of experience in the equity and derivatives markets. A prominent expert on systematic trading, he travels internationally, lecturing to funds, governments, and portfolio managers. He began his career in the aerospace industry, working on the navigation and control systems of the Gemini space program. The markets captured his attention in the early 1970s, and he was one of the first to develop computer models for making market decisions. Kaufman developed a portfolio optimization program that operates on disjoint equity series output from a trading environment. He has created market-neutral strategies, stat-arb trading methods, short-term program trading for cash, and derivative market instruments for institutional and commercial applications. Kaufman was the first chairman of the advisory board of the Vermont Securities Institute, and has served on the Director's Committee of Columbia University's Center for the Study of Futures Markets, founding the Journal of Futures Markets. In 2002, he taught a landmark course in systematic trading at the graduate school of Baruch College. Perry Kaufman is the author of several popular trading books including A Short Course in Technical Trading and Alpha Trading.